| Show 4 M K O GIRLS WHO POSE I 10 t ThoseWho do Societybut little 1 Real Harm n I n + MAINE = GIRLS AND BIS3IARCK I A Dean Ingelons Autograph SchemeThe Education WomenA Successful Womans Society I I r s The posing young woman is very much I to the fore und as fashionable drawing I rooms are furnished witha view of aiding t aid-ing her in her artistic desires she is happy You see a tall slender girl in some sort I of a soft frock draped in Greek fashion t with fillets of gold about her hair standing stand-ing in one corner of the room under ft tall palm tree You think what a good background she has and how lovely the entire effect is and if you are a man you i believe it is accident If you are a woman you give heron admiring glance and say to your chum She has her pose You see tailor made girl who 1 is calling with her hands clasped behind I her standing up in a very erect way against the side of a mantel shelf and it all seems to harmonizethe natural wood the straight lines of her figure the somewhat decided way in which she is speaking the polish oil her patent leather shoed and her smoothly braided hair she has succeeded she is posed there Theres another girl who has come in In a lingering dawdling sort of a way enveloped a longsoft full cloak and I with apicture hat laden with plumes crowning a mass of fluffy disorderly hair and after she has said her good afternoon to tho hostess she half sits half reclines against a pile of cushions one of her adorers brings a foot stool to h her and her small foot in its Louis l Quinze shoe shows to best advantage and she drawls as she talks Shes got her pose Its the semilazy semiser pentine effect of a woman wh looks awkward in a tailor suit whose angles are too many for her to pose against a palm tree but who is filled in and rounded by her full draperies and her soft many colored backgrounds They do study it out and there is no reason why one should dislike it If a woman looks the better for being well posed society is the gainer rather than the 1 loser by itNew York Letter in Indianapolis I In-dianapolis Sentinel frame Girls Chat with Bismarck 1 A few weeks ago a company of young ladies from Maine made a TOW that they would not only see Bismarck but shake hands with him And they accomplished I their vow ill the most easy and natural i manner The occasion was a bazaar given at Bismarcks palace in Berlin for 1 the benefit of the TfehPhening society or society for the aid of the poor The Maine girls repaired to the palace at 130 t p m and found the apartment crowded tI I with people buying goods much as is done in our New England bazaars Presently Pres-ently the young ladies saw that the worshipers wor-shipers of Bismarck began to be av are of his presence and half a dozen bou quets were placed in his hands What lovely flowers the prince has said one of the girls in English Bismarck overheard the remark and I turning to the young lady and shaking her hand said also in English But do you not think there are more bestowed on me than I deserver If I had more I would add them to your stock she retorted Bismarck laughed and added HI am very glad to see that you Americans take interest enough in the bazaar to come here The Maine girls again found it convenient con-venient to speak in somewhat enthusiastic enthusias-tic terms in English of what they saw and heard i What a magnificent roan Prince Bismarck Bis-marck is remarked one 1 The prince turned and smiled and extended ex 1 girls and said And you too are Americans And you think the palace is magnificent do you 1 am glad it pleases you I am happy to welcome you as Americans i Cor Lewiston Journal t Jean Ingelows Autograph Scheme Jean Ingelow has suffered such annoyance annoy-ance of late years from the constant mid P urgent applications of autograph collectors collec-tors that she has at length decided upon a plan by which she hopes to satisfy them all and to serve a particular private pri-vate purpose of her own It certainly contains some elements of originality and interest She has been for a longtime long-time interested in securing the necessary funds for restoring and repairing the old St Lasvrence cliurch at Evesham England En-gland of which her brotherinlaw is rector Believing that her many admirers admir-ers if they value her autographs highly ought to be willing to pay something for them especially when the money is to be devoted to a charitable purpose Miss Ingelow has made a large number num-ber of copies of her favorite poems dating dat-ing and signing each with her name and i has placed them in the hands of her American publishers to be sold at 3 each to whomsoever may desire them I looked over several of these a few days since and noticed in particular numerous numer-ous copies of When Sparrows Build They are ill copied neatly and with considerable con-siderable care Miss Ingelow wishes all = autograph collectors to know that these manuscript poems maybe obtained from the publishers at the price fixed and i when this supply is exhausted she isl willing and ready to supply more on the same basis She states moreover that she will hereafter disregard all applications applica-tions for her autographBoston Journal Jour-nal I + t Education of Women In Cambridge some ten years or so back the regulations by which fellowships i fellow-ships were forfeited on marriage were I relaxed and a considerable number of the younger fellows shortly married Quite recently lady living in Cambridge and associating chiefly with precisely these husbands and wives said to me JI cant say that I know one unhappy marriage among my friends here But then in the majority of these cases the wivesare highly cultivated women in the truest sense the equals of their husbands At thn stage I may perhaps step a little out of the main lino of my argument argu-ment to point out in what way as it appears to me a high standard of education edu-cation among women affects their posi f 1 tiQl1 Mth regard to marriage Itmm o I tl l i tic Jn L rJ I 1 r them undoubtedly more independent of marriage and at the same I time raises their standard of marriage Unmakes them unwilling i to niarry men distinctly inferior them in education or understanding = under-standing and it also I quite believe m kesothem less attractive in the eyes of such men In short it diminishes slightly slight-ly the probability of a womans marrying marry-ing at all while it diminishes very great I ly the probability of her marrying unsuitably un-suitably A student of a ladies college summing sum-ming up the general reSults her education edu-cation said to me 1 dont exactly see why learning Greek should make one feel it impossible to marry a man one did not respect but it seems to amount to about Ihtit1 I thought for my part that this whimsical testimony was the highest possible tribute toiler collegiate training Fortnightly Review New Yorks Wednesday Afternoon Club Some of the most successful authoresses author-esses have only what is known as a common school education And of these the Wednesday Afternoon club is composed It is not to be understood that none of the members of this club have had the advantage of higher educa ti0n but that is not made qualification The club is made up largely of society omen who have made names for themselves them-selves in the literary scientific or artistic artis-tic world The membership of the Wednesday Afternoon club is large and all the names upon its roll are more or less famous Among them are Mrs F P Bellamy Mrs Vincenzo Botta Mrs Fanny Barrows Bar-rows Mrs MoncureDConway Mrs EB Custer Mrs William Choatc Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge Mrs T E Grannis Mrs 1 Cortlandt Palmer Mrs RentzRees Mrs Henry Villard Mrs Charles Watrous Miss Dora Wheeler Mrs Charles Henry Joyce and many others of equal fame The dues are but 3 annually It meets at 159 West Fiftyninth street The constitution con-stitution says that The object of the club shall be for the discussion of general topics Applicants for admission must give proof of their ability to contribute to the working power of tho society in any way that may be required Margaret Mar-garet Manton An Aristocratic Girls Work Every Monday morning from 9 to 11 oclock a brown haired graceful young woman is hard at work in the library of the Young Womens Christian association associa-tion She sits at a desk and her duties for the time being are to relieve the librarian nfrom the monotonous task of changing the books of members who may call If certain men and women of the McAllister set should chance to drop into the library at that hour they would recognize the fair librarian and probably wonder at her being there for hers was familiar figure at the balls of the Four Hundred during the winter and she has frequently made many boxes at the opera all the brighter by her presence This pretty young woman is Miss M Louise Shepard the daughter of Col Elliott El-liott F Shepard MissShepard is on tht library committee and she not only gives her money but her time to the association as-sociation I tell you remarked a lad y who frequents the reading roomy there is absolutely no nonsense about that girl She is frpe from all affectation and pride I belio she could and would do any kina of work that any other woman would doNo York Press A Successful Womans Society The Seidl society of Brooklyn met 9n Saturday The first item on tho pro gramme was a report of the result of the performance of Persifal in which the society was informed that its bank ac counthad been benefited by the < operation somewhere near 1800 Feeling asthc whole society did that this result was almost entirely owing to the businessman business-man gement of their president the applause ap-plause which they bestowed upon her was long and hearty Plans for the summer sum-mer at Brighton were nest announced a series of Sunday morning discourses in the music hall by the most eminent clergymen of the country the regular Wednesday free excursions for children the Tuesday and Thursday excursions for poor women and girls and a summer festival of music At half past 3 BelT Anton Seidl who had kindly consented to play for the society appeared upon the scene and entertained the members for an hour or more with piano selections from the Wagner operas Woman Cycle Feminine Fire Fighters If it hadnt been for tho petticoats Southwest Bend would have been in ashes and maybe in sackcloth today When that big fire started over in the field on the right of the hill nobody minded it Its crest of fire swept 01 towards the town however and soon ashes cinders and smoke were in the streets of the town and men flocked tom to-m et it at the front The bell was then struck from the church and the mother in Israel gathered their flocks together bade them be of good courage wand setoff set-off to the front Nobody fought more bravely than they The spectacle of the lasses of Durham along the stone wall that was made the fighting place of the flames was inspiring especially when carpet rugs and domestic utensils vole pressed into the service of the brigade The fight balanced long with odds in favor of the fire but pluckand intelligence intelli-gence won and Durham was saved for a second centennial Lewiston Journal One Woman Income The Senator is an example of an I American play by American authors which has made large and unexpectedly I unexpected-ly handsome return to tho man who conceived con-ceived the plot or rather to his Widow Mr Lloyd having died and to the man who wrote several large slices of the dialoguethat is to say Sydnej Rosen feld The Senator played at the Star theatre for sixteen weeks and during |
